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Like the hands of a good three-card monte
dealer on 14th St.,
numbers can move faster
than the minds that created them,
trumping poetry, trumping visions,
trumping the eye,
promising precision, whole rulers of truth,
and measurements that will not lie,
and creating a world in their own
slender image,
where
soon
what is valued is only what can be measured,
and servants become masters,
plotting the grids
of our lives.
December 9,1998